RIP Rickey Henderson

Just a really lame (and tasteless) piggyback
off someone else's better line. Stop doing that.

Here's the First Rule of Piggyback:
Never, ever do it unless you can take it higher.

 

Slacker has a question he’d like you to ask yourself before posting.

 

If you applied the joke to the actual joke in the film, you would see that the first joke is the set-up line for the second joke.

 

This is from a story at The Athletic (paywalled probably) about Rickey's year in independent ball with guys who would likely never come close to the majors:

“He would act like he was impressed with what I was doing,” Goodman [leading team in HRs, etc.] said. “I always was awestruck that he would think my swing or my approach was impressive. He did that with a lot of guys, not just me. He used his status to provide more joy to our lives.
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That brought tears to this old guy's eyes.

I thought Rickey was a hot dog when he was younger, I'm realizing (after reading Bryant's book and these stories) that I had him all wrong. Damn we lost him too early.

 

Happy birthday Rickey.